The Importance of Small Business Hiring

The WSJ details the potential good news on the job front: Private-sector jobs in the U.S. rose by 206,000, according to a national employme...

How's the Job Recovery?

While MF Global and the situation in Europe significantly reduce the importance of any economic release, I thought I would highlight today...

Finance and Government... Such a Drag (On Jobs)

Businessweek details: U.S. employers announced the most job cuts in more than two years in September, led by planned reductions at Bank of ...

Quits / Layoffs

Bloomberg details (the below was pieced together from a broader article): The quits rate can serve as a measure of workers’ willingness or ...

Pace of U.S. Recovery Slowing

Growth in the economy appears to be slowing (not that the recovery was all that amazing to begin with). ISM Manufacturing ADP Payroll (the ...

Employment Picture: Getting There... VERY Slowly

Bloomberg details: Job openings in the U.S. fell in November from the highest level in two years, signaling a sustained labor market recove...

Tax Cuts and the Impact (i.e. Cost) per Job

American Progress details: Our analysis of the framework tax agreement that President Barack Obama announced yesterday, including addition...

Companies Increasingly Looking to Hire

Source: BLS

ADP Points to Limited / No Employment Recovery

Marketwatch details: U.S. private-sector employment fell 10,000 in August, according to the ADP employment report released Wednesday. ...

Job Postings on the Up and Up

Indeed (via Infectious Greed ): Our July Industry Employment Trends show year-over-year job posting growth in 1 out of 12 industries. Trans...

Unemployed to Job Openings Remains Elevated

Calculated Risk provides some additional details: According to the JOLTS report, there were 4.96 million hires in February (SA), and 3.957 ...

EconomPic Turns Two / Jake Has a Favor to Ask

I was debating whether to first thank you all for the support that has allowed EconomPic to "blossom" over the past two years and...